MF Smith 1996 JOURNAL Bariloche, Rio Negro Province, Argentina Jan.17 Jim Patton and I left San Francisco on Jan.16 at ~2:00pm. Our plane was an hour late taking off, so we only had 20 minutes to change planes in Miami. Arrived at Ezeiza airport in Buenos Aires and took a taxi to Jorge Newberry airport. Changed Peg's flight to 5:00pm so we would be on the same plane. Eileen Lacey met us at the airport in Bariloche. From my house in Pleasanton I had been in transit for about 29 hours. We checked into the Residencial Tito in Bariloche, had dinner, and went to bed. Jan.18 We went to pick up the Pearson's van from the people at the bicycle shop across from Pearson's apartment. Bought groceries and met Tommy Christie at ~2:15pm. We drove to our first site off highway. Emilio A loaded our gear into a wagon which he pulled by tractor up to the refugio while we hiked up. We set up the tents in an open meadow near the hut. Jim set out 20 Victor rat traps and caught 3 Abrothrix longipilis, 2 Chelomys macronyx, and 3 Aeconacmys in beech forest along the stream with some bamboo and lots of downed logs. We are taking tissues in liquid nitrogen, making a few flat skins since we don't have any cotton, and making complete skeletons of the other animals. Jan.19 Tommy Christie led us up to a higher area where they had found a population of Ctenomys sociabilis last year. After showing us the site Tommy left to go back down to meet his family. Jim set Macabee traps and Eileen showed me how to set a noose to catch tuco's by hand.